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No. 398,687. Patented Feb. 26, 1889.

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$PECIFICA'1ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,687, dated February 26, 1889.

Application filed June 30, 1888, Serial No. 278,671, (No model.)

Massachusetts, and the city, county, and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Railways, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improved railways, and particularly to the construction 1 against the under side of the said tie, by which and continuation of the track-rails and supporting-chairs therefor.

Refr-ai'enee is to be had to the accompanying drawings, tin-mingpart of this specification, in which the present invention is illustrated, and in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a chair, together with a portion of a track-rail and the wedge or confining blocks therein. Fig. 2 is a side view of the chair and a portion of two rails confined therein; and Fig. 3 is a crossscction on line 3 3, Fig. 2.

The track-rails A rest in the chairs H, which are by their bases (1 secured in any approved manner to suitable cross-ties or supports, I), j

therefor, and, as shown, the rail is below its tread-surface .1: at each side provided with concaved or inwardly and downwardly converging walls 1/, in farther downward continuation of which are vertical walls, forming the surface of the mid-ribj.

The chairs ll consist;- of opposing trougln shaped walls open at their ends and top, each wall at and from the base being for a short distance vertical, as shown at 12, and upwardly and outwardly inclining, as at 13. Blocks of wood or other suitable material, 15, are disposed in the bottom of the chairs between the said vertical walls 12, and on said blocks the bottoms of the mid-ribs of the rails A rest.

Blocks K, each provided with a vertical wall, 116, to lit the side of the rail mid-rib j,

terminating ill the convened upper face, 17, i

to fit the concavity y of the rail under its tread, and having its opposite side, 18, inclined to correspond with the inclining side wall of the chair, are, together with said rail, placed within the inclining walls of the chair, and

when so in place the enlarged overlying top of the rail prevents the wedges rising in the chair to loosen their bind upon the rail or to permit; any lateral play thereof; the rail being firmly held against rising by the provision of the angular dogs L, each consisting of the lug 20, which passes through an aperture, 21, in the rail mid-rib, and the shank 22-,which passes through a hole in the chair-base d and through the supporting cross-tie, receiving at: its screwthreaded lower end a nut, 23, to be turned it is constrained to its confining position upon the rail A.

The wedge-shaped bloclcs K are provided at their ends with flanges to lie outside of an dagainst the end walls of the chair,whcreby the said blocks are held against longitudinal movement in either direction.

If desired, in lieu of the removable wooden block between the vertical lower walls of the chair, the inclined walls 13 may extend to the base of the chair and the rail rest directly on said base; but it is preferred to follow the construction shown, as by the use of the blocks 15 abetter bed for the support of the rail is secured, jarring and rattling being in a considerable degree obviated.

The chair may in some instances be so supported that the nuts 23, screwing on the shanks 22 of the angular dogs L, may bear directly against the base-plate of the chair, instead of against the under side of the tie or other chair-support; but it is preferred to have the said shanks pass through said tie and to have the nuts bear against the under side thereof, said tie or chair-support, however, being and forming, when the chair is confined thereon, a part of the base of the chair, and so far as is concerned the confining effect of the rail within the chair by the said dogs L, substantially as described, the above-mentioned relative disposition of the nuts is immaterial.

\Yhat we claim as our invention isl. The combination, with the chairs,

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comprisin the base and the opposing inclined walls 13 13, of the track r-ails having the enlarged upper tread and narrower mid-rib j, provided with the apertures 21, the wedgeblocks K, the confining-dogs L, each comprising the lug 20, entering one of said rail-apertures, and the screw-threaded shank 22, passing vertically through said base, and the nuts 23, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination, with the chairs, each comprising the base and the opposing inclined Walls 13 13, of the track-rails having the enlarged upper tread and narrower mid-rib j, provided with the apertures 21, the wedgeblooks K, provided at each end with the outwardly-extended flanges z, the confining-dogs L, each comprising the lug 20, entering one of said rail-apertures, and the screw-threaded shank 22, passing vertically through said base, and the nuts 23, all substantially as shown, and for the purpose described. 

